Who timidly requests invites refusal.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.